C.A.L.M djing on Friday
CALM is the Campaign Against Living Miserably, and it exists to support young men who are depressed or feeling down. The new CALMZone London helpline and texting service launches on November 26 to help prevent suicide – the biggest killer of young men in London. It has been running in Manchester also, more details can be found about CALM HERE . I’m DJing versus the brilliant Dan le Sac between 7 and 8pm on Friday.
Band? Promoter? Join Action Aid Live Now!
The next time a disaster strikes, Action Aid Live members will be helping at short notice. Your gig, club night or event can really change things and help the most vulnerable. Hear Everything Everything, Cancer Bats and Chapel Club say why they’ve joined HERE , then join Action Aid Live yourself…
Rough Trade Best of 2011
I love and end of year list. Especially when it comes from Rough Trade Record shops. Their two London shops are things of beauty (East new and big, West old and small, both full of beautiful pieces of wax and plastic) and their taste, as witnessed on their excellent Counter Culture compilations, is always pretty reliable. Their 100 favourite albums of the last 12 months is HERE
Manic Street Preachers – This is the Day
The Manics cover The The from the 80′s, with a great video bringing together footage of the band from over the years.
Peaking Lights
The standout track from their album, coming out again via Weird World Records and sounding magnificent.
Jon Hillcock’s New Noise
Jon Hillcock is a good man. Every week he goes about putting ten songs he’s really really really digging together into a free to enjoy audio montage. It’s always surprising, exciting and a treat to the ears. Subscribe to his site HERE
Dim Byd
The best, craziest, funniest, most mental thing on S4C, the Welsh language tv channel, in years. Dim Byd.
Peth gore fi di gweld ar ein sianel hoff ers blynyddoedd maith. Doniol.
Gold Panda at Koko
A beautiful video made at Gold Panda’s recent gig in London’s KOKO. Gotta love a bit of Derwin. You can just about make me out, fourth from the back, 5th left, hands in there. (Not really. I wasn’t there. Wish I was though).
Coming up in Session on BBC Radio 1…
Lots of good stuff on the way on the Wednesday night show on BBC Radio 1 between now and Chistmas. Here’s a good old fashioned list;
Wednesday 23rd November ; Real Estate
Wednesday 30th November; DZ Deathrays
Wednesday 7th December ; Wonder Villains
Wednesday 14th December ; Peaking Lights
Wednesday 21st December ; Wise Blood
I should point out the shows actually s broadcast on a Thursday morning, but I prefer to call it Wednesday night. Hope that’s ok.